Do you live a life that is pleasing to God at all times? - John Piper
Do you live a life that is pleasing to God at all times? What are your aims and goals for this year with regards to your walk with the Lord ? If you are like me, you likely desire to please God in all you do. As much as I desire to please God with all my actions, there are the looming reminders of my weaknesses and just how impossible it is for me to please God. The writer of Hebrews offers hope, asserting that God is ultimately pleased by his work in us, and not our tainted “good” deeds, though they are necessary to prove our relationship with him. At the close of his letter, the author prays, Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ , to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:20 –21) First, the author prays that God would...